Sentences with phrase «of land disputes»

There are already lots of land disputes, participants noted, and relocation will undoubtedly create more, and add to the migration to the cities.

When completely described, the trials are a tale of land disputes, social prejudice, bitter family rivalries, intimidation, sexual repression, and the Reverend Parris's attempts to hold onto his job.

So we have cases of land disputes over erection of transmission towers, who gets compensation, who does not get and they escalate to court issues.»

The Committee urged Canada to do more to ensure the timely and fair resolution of land disputes and to respect the international standard of free, prior and informed consent in decisions affecting Indigenous rights.

As a result, double - ownership and sundry forms of land dispute are a common occurrence in these countries.

Not exact matches

«We have consistently called on China, as well as other claimants, to refrain from further land reclamation, construction of new facilities, and militarization of disputed features, and to commit to managing and resolving disputes peacefully with other claimants,» a Pentagon official told CNBC when asked about China's recent military activity in the area.

The disputed clumps of land are small and barren, not to mention overrun with feral goats — but they sit in waters rich with tuna and oil.

From machetes to maps: How a red line eased conflict in Bolivias Amazon After years of dispute on the edge of a national park, CI and government partners helped competing land users find common ground through a map they drew together.

We usually focus on the content of faiths and policies in disputing groups; for example, the Catholic bishops» pastoral letters, the sermonic messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., and black churches, Mormon doctrines about equality or inequality, New Christian Right teachings based on revealed truths, or Jews» concepts of the land of Israel.

No one disputes that many of today's land masses spent some time under water.

In the sustained if intermittent violent disputes with her near neighbors, Ammon and Moab (Lot), and Edom (Esau), Israel continues to recognize her close kinship with these semitic groups but insists in the stories that her claim to Canaan was validated long before she came out of Egypt and into the land under Joshua.

The Pact (c. 717 A.D.) was supposedly made (there is some dispute among historians on the exact date and circumstance of its beginnings) between the Umayyad caliph Umar II and «people of the book» (Christians and Jews) in the lands conquered by Muslim jihad.

The Prophets, even when stressing God's sovereignty over all of humanity and his eventual establishment of universal justice, emphasize the role of the land as the place in which international disputes will be settled and the divine word sent forth to all of humanity (Isaiah 2; Micah 4).

A wave of unexpected calm has blanketed India since the verdict on the disputed holy site known as Ayodhya was delivered on Thursday, with one - third of the land going to plaintiffs who represent the Hindu deity Ram, a third going to a separate Hindu group and a third to a Muslim group.

Entering into the disputes over all the necessary distinctions and qualifications lands us right back in the sixteenth century, which, one is inclined to believe, is not where the Holy Spirit intends to lead the Church at the end of the twentieth century.

Even in the Holy Land, where Christians have been caught in the crossfire of the Israeli - Palestinian dispute, their numbers have dwindled from 20 percent of the population (in 1945) to a mere 2 percent today.

Fact is Utah is a in a huge dispute with the Federal Government over Federal Land 65 % of the state and Education.

The Red Devils are keen to land the world class Spanish international, who wants out of the Bernabeu this summer after a contract dispute with the club.

A developer, the village of Lemont and the Lemont Park District are locked in a dispute even though all of them want the same thing: to turn a parcel of land into a recreational area.

Members of the Lake in the Hills Village Board, which has been in a dispute with Cary over the land, declined to comment after meeting in executive session to discuss legal strategies in the aftermath of the news...

Members of the Lake in the Hills Village Board, which has been in a dispute with Cary over the land, declined to comment Tuesday night after meeting in executive session to discuss legal strategies in the aftermath of the news about the contract.

Members of the Lake in the Hills Village Board, which has been in a dispute with Cary over the land, declined to comment after meeting in executive session to discuss legal strategies in the aftermath of the news about the contract.

Bissias, director of the Park District for nine years, said the park board feels it's «inappropriate» to dedicate the land to the village because it's unclear what development, if any, could pop up at the site of the former YMCA property near the disputed intersection.

VERNON HILLS — A dispute that has erupted between the village and the Park District over the fate of 41 acres of district - owned land is expected to be discussed in executive session.

Construction of a skate park area and sewer upgrades, among other improvements, at Gordon Park in La Grange will move forward after the village's Plan Commission gave a green light to the project after weeks of discussion between the park district and village officials over a land ownership dispute.

Responding after receiving the report, Governor Ambode commended members of the Committee which included Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana; Partner of SimmonsCooper, Mrs Victoria Alonge, among others, for the painstaking efforts put into the report, saying that their passion in ensuring that the State Government recovers its lands, buildings as well as disputed quarters were very much appreciated.

He said: «It is our hope that this initiative will put an end to the long - standing dispute between Federal and Lagos State Governments over the Federal Government disused lands and buildings and disputed quarters in various parts of the State which are no longer in use for the purposes for which they were originally released to the Federal Government

The two, Kwaku Ninja and Taller, who had been attached to the Striking Force Unit of the Ghana Police Service at the time, were reportedly assigned to invite the parties involved in a protracted land dispute at Ablekuma in the Greater Accra Region.

They can't comment on the individual cases raised, but point out that a crucial question will be whether the councils concerned have the five year land supply to meet their housing need - which councils are require to have under the National Planning Policy Framework which together with its presumption in favour of sustainable development the National Trust, of which Jenkins is Chairman, apparently supported, along with the CPRE (claims my source, who also disputes Hastings's figures on the amount of land built on in any way).

The first strand of the argument — that the Jewish people have a historical claim to the land — is a matter of ongoing dispute.

Neighbors of Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski say he threatened to use his «political clout» to make their lives «a nightmare» over an ongoing land dispute, according to a new lawsuit.

The other would settle a 100 year - old land ownership dispute in a part of Hamilton County called Township 40.

A dispute between developers and workers at Hudson Yards could alter the ability of the city's unionized construction industry to land large projects.

A Kogi High Court sitting in Lokoja, has sentenced the leader of a six - man gang, Mohammed Sani Audu to death by hanging for stabbing one Hussein Isa to death over land dispute.

It was learnt that the attack was not unconnected with the recent rivalry over the disputed land boundary between Aladja community in Udu Council and Ogbe - Ijoh community in Warri South West Local Government areas of the state.

Land, especially those who are in dispute, should be taxed, say at a rate of.01 % for non disputed land, or.05 % for land that really should have belong to othLand, especially those who are in dispute, should be taxed, say at a rate of.01 % for non disputed land, or.05 % for land that really should have belong to othland, or.05 % for land that really should have belong to othland that really should have belong to others.

«The attachment of the Ghanaian people to the rule of law made it possible for us, in the New Patriotic Party, to entrust our fate to the highest court in the land in the aftermath of the disputed elections of 2012.

The ownership of the land according to the traders is being disputed in court.

Celebrated Broadcast Journalist, Kwami Sefa Kayi aka Chairman General, has chided Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul over the manner in which the latter publicly attacked ex-President John Mahama over an alleged disputed land he [Mahama] is said to be occupying.

«It also clarified that on the advice of the governor that all shades of views on how to resolve the recurring crisis between Share and Tsaragi, including, if need be, the application of the concept of «give and take», it is painful that such advice is seen by some party in the dispute as «threatening land owners,» when in fact the governor expressed the same view when he had peace talks with the people of Share after the session with the people of Tsaragi.»

Hon. Nitiwul has come under a barrage of criticism from a section of the public after he at a press conference, advised former President John Mahama to vacate any «disputed» military land he is currently occupying.

Mahoney and McMahon have denied that, saying COR approached the county on its own because of a dispute with the city over the tax assessment on Inner Harbor land.

The eleven member land management committee of the secretariat, shall record all land transactions at the local level as well as resolve land disputes within the Talensi traditional area.

Gov. David Umahi of Ebonyi has confirmed the death of three persons in a land dispute involving Onweonweya and Mkpumekweoku communities in Izzi Local Government Area of the state.

At the time of his arrest, the police believed that he had been contracted to kill one of the chiefs in the Miotso / Prampram area over a land dispute.

«The proliferation of illicit arms in the country, the existence of numerous land and chieftaincy disputes, the prevalence of terrorist activities in some neighboring countries of our regions all serve as triggers for violence and therefore pose real threats to the 2016 general elections,» he outlined.

In March the Uttar Pradesh state court ordered ASI to research the claim that a temple predated the mosque in hopes of resolving the land dispute (Science, 28 March, p. 1958).

A lot of wealthy Pashtuns have disputes with their cousins over land that they have inherited.

Because of these inheritance disputes, a lot of people end up hurting or killing their own cousins over their land.

A growing number of settlements also led to armed disputes over water rights, agricultural and pasture land, and control of trade routes.